| A | B |
| Wm. Bradford | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| J. Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| A. Bradstreet | Upon the burning of our home |
| E. Taylor | Upon a spider catching a fly |
| Wm. Byrd | The History of the dividing Line |
| B. Franklin | The Autobiography |
| P. Henry | Speech to the Virgina Convention |
| T. Jefferson | The declaration of Independce |
| W. Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
| W.C. Bryant | Thanatopis |
| H.W. Longfellow | Ropewalk |
| O.W. Holmes | Old ironsides |
| J.R. Lowell | She came and She went |
| R.W. Emerson | Self reliance |
| H.D. Thoreau | Civil disopedance |
| E.A. Poe | Mask of the Red Death |
| N. Hawthorne | Rapaccini's Daughter |
| H. Melvile | Moby Dick |
| W. Whitman | I heard America Singing |
| E. Dickinson | I heard a fly buzz |
| F. Douglas | The Battle with Mr. Covey |
| B. Harte | The Outcast of Poker Flat |
| A. Bierce | An occurance at owl creek |
| M. Twain | Life on the Mississippi |